page_title: Campus of Minnesota State University
section_title: North Quad
hierarchical_section_title: Campus of Minnesota State University / North Quad
caption_attribution_description: English: This is a panorama picture on the Minnesota State University, Mankato campus of Julia Sears and other residence halls.
context_page_description: The Minnesota State University campus currently contains 30 buildings spread over 303 acres in Mankato, Minnesota, United States. The campus includes on campus housing in the form of dorms for 2,700 residents, academic buildings, a main library, a music library, two astronomy observatories, experimental research stations for alternative and renewable energy, a recreation center, an athletics complex, a student center, an administration center and over 50 acres of athletics fields including the football team Blakeslee Stadium. The Minnesota State Mavericks men's and women's hockey teams also utilize and have administrative space at the Verizon Wireless Center and the All Seasons Arena located off campus.
context_section_description: The North Area of the campus contains a majority of on campus student housing. It also includes classroom buildings in the Wiecking Center, Children's Place Early Childhood Learning Center, the Earley Center for Performing Arts and others.
  There are five student housing complexes on or near campus that serve approximately 3,000 students. The five student complexes are:
  McElroy Residence Community (800 residents) – Consists of four four-story halls. All the halls are connected to each other through a central hallway and to Crawford, Preska and Carkoski Commons Dining Hall. As part of an ongoing campus renewal of the north part of campus there are renovations occurring to the Dining and Health Services. Renovations have been completed in 2012–2013 for the McElroy complexes. Additions included air conditioning.
  Crawford Residence Community  (800 residents) – Consists of four four-story halls. The Crawford Halls are planned for renovations in the near future.
  Margaret R. Preska Residence Community (500 residents) – Consists of a single large four-story hall that was recently constructed, and opened in 2012, to replace the demolished Gage Towers at the south-side of campus.
  Julia A. Sears Residence Community (600 residents) – Consists of four four-story halls.  All the halls are connected to each other through a central hallway.
  Stadium Heights Residence Community (300 residents) – Are 84 apartment style units adjacent to campus. These were previously a private apartment complex that are leased in starting 2013 to the university to meet the need for expanded student housing.
  Gage Towers – Demolished (600 residents) – Were two thirteen story residential towers that were completed in 1965 that were imploded in 2013 using explosives to demolish the aging structures.
caption: Julia Sears Residence Hall
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